Homeland’s top cop eyes border threat
Napolitano sends official to Brownsville, other towns to take a look
By STEWART M. POWELL WASHINGTON BUREAU
March 19, 2009, 10:27PM


Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano has dispatched her top cop to border cities under threat from Mexico’s insurgent cartels to gather on-the-ground intelligence for an aggressive security operation, drawing people from her agency, the Pentagon, the White House and the Justice Department.

Napolitano announced on Thursday that former Alabama sheriff Edmund “Tedâ€